Crusting Buttercream Won't Crust.
Decorating By Faffy Updated 30 Nov 2009 , 5:27pm by 2SchnauzerLady
I am a little discouraged, my crusting buttercream won't firm up after sitting for several hours. I have tried to use the paper towel tecnique to smooth it out but all it does is stick to the paper and leave a textured bumpy mess. Is it because I live in the Pacific north west and the humitity is too high and interferes with the crusting (we have had 40 days of rain in a row, Bella Swan would be pretty depressed right now if she were here) lol. Any help would be appriciated.
whats the recipe? have u tried to add more powdered sugar?
well a 1 to 1 (fat to sugar) will crust but it seems like the humidity is preventing that.. if u have a problem with the thickness you can up the sugar but use more liquid to think it out.. There is (i believe) a recipe for high humidity buttercream on here
http://cakecentral.com/recipes/4123/High-Humidity-Buttercream
a lot of people use indydebi's recipe also which is similar I believe
Humidity or not enough sugar is usually the problem...
Jen 
i think you need a diferent paper towel too, using a patterned one means you end up with it imprinted in your bc. that methos requires a totally unpatterend one.
xx
Indydebi's recipe worked absolutely perfectly for me and I am a total novice. It crusted beautifully. I added a tsp or tbl (can't remember which) of lemon extract and it made it sort of refreshing. I added the lemon in place of the Almond Extr it calls for. I don't like almond ext. I made my frosting on a rainy day and it still crusted within a short time.
Oh yes and it is the powdered Dream Whip. You find it on the baking isle around the "no bake cheesecake" stuff in my grocer. It's in a box.
I used to live in Florida and summers there are very high humidity - you feel like you're breathing in water - Indydebi's holds up well there.
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